Brooklyn town meeting agenda packed

Town leaders have a long list of items to discuss at town meeting Monday.

FRANCESCA KEFALAS

Town leaders have a long list of items to discuss at town meeting Monday.

The agenda includes the discussion and potential approval of five resolutions and four town ordinances. The meeting will be 7 p.m. Monday at the middle school.

“Some of the items are pretty simple to deal with,” First Selectman Austin Tanner said. “But, it is a big agenda.”

The ordinances being discussed include a new one to deal with blight, one for events, changing the town treasurer position from elected to appointed and a property tax exemption for farm buildings and farm machinery.

Resolutions include giving the Board of Selectmen authority to enter into grants with the state, acceptance of an inter-town capital purchase grant, permission to tear down the old recreation building on Prince Hill Road and expenditures related to the middle school gym.

Tanner said he expects the resolutions on the two grant issues and the razing of the recreation building to be approved quickly.

The gym purchases are actually broken into two separate items. The first part of the resolution is to approve spending up to $5,470 for additional pads, shelves for storage rooms, the refinishing of a storage room floor, safety mirrors in the lockers and flags.

Tanner said the items were not under the original scope of work for the middle school wall project, but are mostly safety issues.

There is also a request for an additional set of new bleachers and a logo for the middle of the gym floor. Those items total $14,600. The project has about a $40,000 surplus.
The Board of Selectmen had delayed holding the meeting in an attempt to deal with as many issues at once as possible.

“We wanted to have this meeting earlier in the year, but it just hasn’t worked out that way,” Tanner said.